I'm not an authority on this, but I can't see a reason why not. The current lines are unlikely to be accurate the way you describe them and matches what I've seen elsewhere in the Philippines. Ronny.
On 2016-02-02 18:17, David Groom wrote: > Hi > > Firstly let me introduce myself, I'm based in the UK. I've been involed with > OSM pretty much from the start, (I attended the first ever mapping party), was > responsible for a large part of the original worldwide coastline import, > spent a lot of time fixing coastline errors, did most of the original mapping > of Baghdad from Bing & Yahoo imagery, and have done of lot of other mappng > from imagery worldwide, as well as mapping from my own GPX tracks here in th > UK and wherever I vacation. > > I have recently started mapping parts of Leyte. Initially focusing on some of > the smaller scale mapping ( tracing builings etc) . > > I then noticed that some areas of coastline on the west of the island needed > updating from imagery since it had the typical "saw-tooth" effect resulting > from imports of coastline data. so have been working on that. I'm not > finished yet! > > Anyway, the purpose of my post to the list is to ask about landuse = forest > areas. If you look at the central part of Leyte some large areas have been > mapped and tagged for the forest, but : > > (1) these seem to have arbitary boundaries (long strainght lines where the > areas simply have not been accuarely mapped to any natural feature) > > (2) The areas so far mapped with tree cover (either "natural = wood", or > "landuse = forest" represent a smnall proportion of the actual forest cover on > the island. > > My question is, is it OK if as I map other things I extend the tree cover > areas . This may result in a large part of Leyte "turning green" on the map. > > Regards > > David Groom > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
